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Entry1_Nguyễn Thị Hồng Liên

CRITICAL THINKING

Item 1: Poem

I saw

I saw an apple tree in full bloom;

I saw a firefly lighting the gloom;

I saw a boat with wind in its sail;

I saw a butterfly perch on a nail;

I saw a cloud that looked like a dog;

I saw a worm hiding under a log;

I saw moonbeams dancing on the lake;

I saw candles lighting up a cake;

I saw poplar leaves playing in the air;

I saw a clown at a county fair;

I saw a bird with bright red wings;

Did you ever see all these lovely things?

Agnes Curren Hamm

Rhetorical devices:

§ Rhyme: bloom- gloom; sail- nail; dog- log; lake- cake; air- fair; wing- thing

§ Repetition: I saw

§ Simile: a cloud= a dog

Message: Every day we missed to see many things, though the world is very beautiful and colorful. Therefore, in life-time we should try stopping to enjoy the lovely things in the world, and feel the precious things that seem to be very simple around us.

Item 2: story

Discouraged?

When I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the fist baseline. I asked one of the boys what the score was.

“We’re behind 14 to nothing” he asked with a smile. “Really I said. “I have to say you don’t look very discouraged.”

Discouraged? The boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. “Why should we be discouraged? We haven’t been up to bat yet.”

Rhetorical:

· Metaphor: a local little League baseball game is the difficulties and challenges in our life

Message: there are always difficulties and challenges that we have to face every day, but never give up, be optimistic.

Item3: picture

Rhetorical:

· Overstatement: there is not space for people to live, the earth is deep in water

· A rhetorical question: how tax cuts can protect you from global warming?

Message: the earth is being destroyed and immerged into the water. The people’s life, therefore, will end and no tax cuts can protect us from the global warming.

Reference: 1. Sunflower, Dong Nai general publishing house, September 2006

2. Chicken soup for the soul, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

3.http://www.google.com.vn/search?hl=vi&sugexp=gsis,i18n%3Dtrue&cp=10&gs_id=jc&xhr=t&q=gio+trai+dat&pq=nhung+hinh+anh+mang+thong+diep+ve+ngay+trai+dat

Entry 1_Mai Thị Thảo

Entry 1_ Mai Thị Thảo

Entry 1 Item 1 : Poem Health Is Wealth  By Raja Basu Health is our most precious wealth, I hope you agree No doubt, health is the sweetest fruit of our life’s tree. Money is certainly important, and so is social prestige But it is a good health that is the source of a constant bliss. You may have the money to tour the world, but can’t if your health does not permit You can buy all the food of the world, but your bad health will not let you eat. You might have huge honor in the city, with everybody bowing before you But you will fail to enjoy it, if you regularly develop health problems new. In this way the bad health will always play a serious bar In the way of your enjoying what you have, wealth, house or car. On the other hand the good health is a source of constant happines That will automatically turn your life into one of charm, pleasure and grace. Take good care of your health, and develop a body that is sound and strong And ensure a life that is happy and charming, besides being long. Rhetorical devices: Ø Simile:  Health-Wealth               Health -The sweetest fruit of our life’s tree. Ø Paradox: In this way -On the other hand Ø Repetition:You may,You can,You might                    You may/can/might...,but...not...     Message:Health is very important to us,so we should take good care of our  health to have a hapy life.

Item 2: Story

A Good Story for Great Friends

 There once was a little girl who had a bad temper.

Her mother gave her a bag of nails and told her that every time she lost her temper, she must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as she learned to control her anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. She discovered it was easier to hold her temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the girl didn't lose her temper at all.

She told her mother about it and the mother suggested that the girl now pull out one nail for each day that she was able to hold her temper. The days passed and the young girl was finally able to tell her mother that all the nails were gone. 

The mother took her daughter by the hand and led her to the fence. She said, "You have done well, my daughter, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one." 

You can hurt a person and it won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Rhetorical devices:

Simile:  Holes in the fence like scars of your friends when you saying things in anger to them.

                 A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

                       It was easier to hold her temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Message: Remember not to lose temper at any time of your life.  Be calm and polite to your friends.The reason is that when you have a bad temper and say things in anger to a person,you can hurt him. Although “How many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there.”

Item 3: Cartoon

Rhetorical devices:

Ø Metaphor:

·        The bear:having awareness of protecting environment by putting litter into the garbage.

·        The man:not having awareness of protecting environment.He is indiffent when seeing litter in the forest.

·        The animals also have a sense of environmental protection while human beings does not.

Message:Human beings  should be more aware of environmental protection. One of the activities contributing to environmental protection is to put litter into prescribed places.

References:

·        http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/health-is-wealth/

·        http://www.cojoweb.com/friendship-week.html

·        http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/l/litter.asp

entry1_vuthinhung

Entry 1_Vu Thi Nhung
Item 1: Symbol : The bowl of Hygieia

Rhetorical devices Metaphor: the snake( health, youth, the patient and that they choose whether ornot to take the medicine to help themselves. the bowl( a medicinal potion cup of healthy God Hygia).

Message:

The “Bowl of Hygeia” symbol is the most widely recognized international symbolof pharmacy.The bowl of hygieia and her snake as a symbol of living in harmonywith mother earth. The snake may symbolise the patient and that they choosewhether or not to take the medicine to help themself. Hence taking control overtheir own well-being by making correct choices. The snake that is depicted aboutto take from the bowl is also linked to ancient beliefs that snakes have wisdomand healing. The ancient idea was that the dead went into the ground to dwell inHades, a dreamlike land neither good nor bad. Snakes had contact with the deadand carried the souls of the ancestors, returning to help the living. Hence the ideawas, that snakes carried great wisdom as they carried the souls of wise ancestors.

Item 2: Image

Rhetorical devices:

Metaphor: soil( fierce life environment, hardship, challenge…), tree( people),flowers( result, success)Irony: arid soil- beautiful flowers.

Message:

In arid gravelly soil, there is still trees in blossom .Life always has challenges,difficulties but strong, determinable people overcome and achieve great success.

Item 3: story

The obstacle on our path

In ancient times, a king had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himselfand watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the king'swealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it. Manyloudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anythingabout getting the big stone out of the way. Then a peasant came along carryinga load of vegetables. On approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down hisburden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing andstraining, he finally succeeded. As the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, henoticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse containedmany gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the
person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned whatmany others never understand.

Rhetorical devices

Metaphor: the big stone( obstacle, opportunities), a purse with many gold coins (award, achievement).

Message:

Every obstacle may be an opportunity to improve one's condition.

References:

http://www.thepharmacyexpert.com/Hygeia.htm

http://www.ancient-symbols.com/greek_symbols.html

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http://go.webassistant.com/wa/upload/users/u1000057/workspaces/30stories/

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Entry 1_Vũ Thanh Thủy09E2

Entry1_Item1: poem

An old pond

A frog jumps in

Splash!

Basho

Rhetorical devices:

Metaphor : pond (people’s life)

A frog, Splash! (a bell)

Message:

People who are unintentional usually think that life floats along to pass, however; it is movable in each second. They can not see, can not hear because they do not pay attention to hear and see. This is the dialectical relationship between silence and noise. Therefore, it is like a bell which wakes human being in the darkness up!

Entry 1 _ Item 2: story

The kind and the peace contest

There once was a king who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried and submitted their work. The king looked at all the pictures. There were only two he really liked, and he had to choose between them.
One picture was of a calm lake, perfectly mirroring the peaceful, towering mountains all around it. Overhead was blue sky with fluffy, white clouds. It was the favorite of all who saw it. Truly, they thought, it was the perfect picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains, too, but these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell and in which lightening played. Down the side of one mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. A less peaceful picture would be difficult to imagine. But when the king looked closely, he saw beside the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush, a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest in perfect peace.

Which picture would you have selected? Lastly, the king chose the second picture.

Rhetorical:

Metaphor: Scene in the first picture (a quiet place but not really peaceful)

Scene in the second picture (noise, trouble, or hard work, etc.)

A symbol:The mother bird on her nest in the second picture ( perfect, real peace)

Antithesis: antithetical scenes between 2 pictures

Message:  peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. A real peace is in your heart!

Entry 1 _ Item 3: Cartoon

Rhetorical devices:

Overstatement: a huge mount of rubbish

Antithesis: opposition between the marvelous bridge and the rubbish under the bridge

Message:  it is high time for us to protect the environment by recycling rubbish.

References:

 http://tuoitrebentre.com/forum/showthread.php?18485-Nh%E1%BB%AFng-b%E1%BB%A9c-%E1%BA%A3nh-%C3%BD-ngh%C4%A9a-th%E1%BB%9Di-%C4%91%E1%BA%A1i

http://go.webassistant.com/wa/upload/users/u1000057/workspaces/30stories

http://chutluulai.net/forums/showthread.php?t=12376

entry 1_nguyen thi duyen

Entry 1_Nguyễn Thị Duyên

Entry 1

        Item 1: Poem

I will tell you how the sun rose

I'll tell you how the sun rose,--
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
"That must have been the sun!"

But how he set, I know not.
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while
Till when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
           By Emily Dickinson
Rhetorical devices:

Symbol:  Ribbons and yellow boys and girls could represent innocence, or the ribbons might also portray vanity. The frantic squirrels could symbolize the frantic pace of life we lead.Obviously, steeples and a dominie symbolize religion. But if you want to dig deeper, you might even say that the dominie symbolizes the call of God
Metaphor: Sunrays regarded as ribbons, dominic in grey put the evening bars
The second stanza is an extended metaphor of life and death regarded as children climbing over the stile and gettig herded by the dominic.
Simile: the news like squirrels ran . The news is compared to squirrels running, in speed.
Rhyme: part free verse only last four lines follow meter and rhyme scheme.

Message: A stile is a staircase that lets someone get in or out of a fenced yard without a gate, as it has stairs on both sides of the fence. Dickinson is saying that the sun's ascent and descent over the earth is like bright children going over a stile. A dominie in gray that led the flock away is like the gray clouds that seem so drab after the light stops touching them.

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-ll-tell-you-how-the-sun-rose/

                                          

      Item 2: Short story

A little bird was flying south for the Winter. It was so cold the bird froze and fell to the ground into a large field.While he was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on him.
As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, he began to realize how warm he was.The dung was actually thawing him out!
He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy.A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate. Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Rhetorical devices:

 Metonymy: use bird, cow and cat images to talk about people in the world

Morals of the story:
Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy,  gets you out of shit is your friend. And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!

http://www.tensionnot.com/jokes/short_stories_moral_lessons

  Item 3: Political cartoon 

"liberty is not anarchy"

Message: Anarchy means the lack of a government and therefore a lack of law. Some people may believe that, in the absence of government, people would treat each other well and act chaiitably, the liberal view is that absence of government would lead to chaos, disorder and oppression.

Liberty accepts that we need a government in order to protect our rights and freedoms. Liberty clearly does not mean that people may do as they wish, since any right imposes an obligation on someone else. For example, if I have a right to property, it necessarily means that others must be prevented from taking my property

http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/act3/courtOfPublicOpinion/libertyIsNotAnarchy_f.htm

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Item 1: Poem

A Special World

A special world for you and me
A special bond one cannot see
It wraps us up in its cocoon
And holds us fiercely in its womb.

Its fingers spread like fine spun gold
Gently nestling us to the fold
Like silken thread it holds us fast
Bonds like this are meant to last.

And though at times a thread may break
A new one forms in its wake
To bind us closer and keep us strong
In a special world, where we belong.

Rhetorical devices:

• Repetition: a special world.
• Simile: fingers-fine spun gold, silken thread.
• Metaphor: a special world (one’s love and tolerance), bond ( tie), cocoon ( security), womb ( heart).

Message:

            The love and tolerance of human beings are very big, great and endless. It is like a flame which warms lonely or weak hearts.

Item 2: Poem

You hold the key to my heart

As we lie beneath the stars,
We wonder who we really are,
I wonder what you see in me,
We'll fall asleep beneath the trees.

Run your fingers through my hair,
Show me that you truly care,
Day by day, and night by night,
When I'm with you I have no fright.

The day you told you loved me,
That's when I gave you the key,
To my heart, soul and mind,
I'm glad to know that you're all mine.

I want it to last forever,
To know that we'll always be together,
Feel no pain or sadness dear,
I want you to always be near.

In every hug and every kiss,
When I'm with you I feel true love exists.
Hold me close and never let me go,
Don't let me fall amidst the shadow.

For I am yours, forever it may be,
I am yours for all eternity.
I mean it all; all I've said,
Without you, a part of me is dead.

Rhetorical devices:

• End-rhyme: 

As we lie beneath the stars,
We wonder who we really are,

I wonder what you see in me,
We'll fall asleep beneath the trees.

Run your fingers through my hair,
Show me that you truly care,

Day by day, and night by night,
When I'm with you I have no fright.

The day you told you loved me,
That's when I gave you the key,

To my heart, soul and mind,
I'm glad to know that you're all mine.

I want it to last forever,
To know that we'll always be together,

Feel no pain or sadness dear,
I want you to always be near.

In every hug and every kiss,
When I'm with you I feel true love exists.

Hold me close and never let me go,
Don't let me fall amidst the shadow.

For I am yours, forever it may be,
I am yours for all eternity.

I mean it all; all I've said,
Without you, a part of me is dead.

·         Repetition: wonder, beneath, fall, when I'm with you, I want, I am yours.

·         Antithesis:

Day by day, and night by night

Hold me close and never let me go

Message:

                Love is a very important part in this world, concurrently to love and to be loved is the only true happiness in our life. Therefore, everyone should treasure and develop it.

Item 3: Fable

A wolf in sheep’s clothing

Once upon a time, a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.

Rhetorical devices:

-          Metaphor:

A Wolf (standing for a person who is evil, greedy, deceive; a ruling class), the shepherd( a person who is gentle, honest and kind-hearted, a ruled class) .

-          Symbol: A Wolf – evil, the shepherd - good

-          Climax :

But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly.

Message:

            Greed brings disaster and good always defeats evil.

References:

 http://www.poetryamerica.com/Read_poems.asp?id=200972416738

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/wolf-in-sheeps-clothing.html

http://www.lovepoemsandquotes.com/LovePoem01.html